Juno News - July 12, 2018


BRIAN PALLISTER'S PUSH FOR FREEDOM

Hosted by
Andrew Lawton
Mentioned
Brian Pallister Comeau
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Length

2 minutes

Words per minute

181.92

Word count

391

Sentence count

19


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Canadians should be able to drive across provincial borders without fear of a hefty fine for carrying a six-pack of beer across the border, says Brian Pallister, Premier of Manitoba, in a letter to his fellow premiers.

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00:00:00.000 Canada's premiers are set to meet next week, something they do routinely
00:00:04.500 throughout the year, and one of the members of this esteemed club of first
00:00:09.480 ministers in Canada is already standing out with a great idea. Brian Pallister,
00:00:13.920 Premier of Manitoba, has written a letter to his colleagues that says they
00:00:19.080 need to work together to eliminate interprovincial trade barriers when it
00:00:23.820 comes to alcohol specifically. This was a case that the Supreme Court ultimately
00:00:29.000 ruled on not too long ago where they found that a $240 fine that was issued
00:00:34.100 by the New Brunswick government to a man who brought a six-pack of beer over from
00:00:38.300 Quebec was in fact justified. $240. It wasn't about the money though. It was
00:00:44.100 about the principle. Our Constitution, our Charter, everything about the fabric of
00:00:48.000 our identity in Canada says that we can move freely across provincial
00:00:51.380 boundaries. You should be able to do it with or without a six-pack of beer, but
00:00:55.500 Mr. Comeau found that was not the case. And the Supreme Court ruled on this.
00:00:59.880 Everyone thought it was going to be a slam dunk in the way of freedom, but the
00:01:03.360 Supreme Court actually ruled that our mobility rights can be trumped if
00:01:07.920 provinces have a greater purpose. And for the province of New Brunswick, that
00:01:13.380 greater purpose was legitimately control over alcohol sales, market share. So now
00:01:20.000 Brian Pallister is leading the charge saying that provinces need to make sure they
00:01:24.660 are not actively going after their own citizens for daring to drive from one
00:01:29.040 province into another. And there are going to be some people that say, oh well, is
00:01:33.060 alcohol really the hill you want to die on? There is no monopoly on a good idea
00:01:38.060 first off. And most importantly, we can't eliminate the smaller problems from our
00:01:43.440 agenda because there are too many of the bigger problems. We need to look after the
00:01:47.000 big and the small, which is why I hope that Minister or Premier Pallister's idea
00:01:51.920 will actually be embraced. You cannot pretend to have a free country on the big
00:01:57.100 issues if you spend so much time becoming the nanny state on the little
00:02:02.200 issues. And one six pack at a time, we're going to tell Canadians that there's a
00:02:06.080 better way. For True North Initiative, I'm Andrew Lawton.